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President Donald Trump veered off topic to endorse fossil fuel energy during a phone conversation with a small child in a Mar-a-Lago Christmas Eve event.

"How long until Santa will be here?" asked the child.

The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait raked newly-installed CBS boss Bari Weiss over the coals for her controversial move to block the release of a "60 Minutes" report on horrific conditions at the foreign megaprison where President Donald Trump is shipping hundreds of migrants with no due process — and warned that her justifications for it are not credible in the slightest, given the context in which she was installed into the network in the first place.

"The year is 2029," wrote Chait. "President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, having spent years raging against Fox News as a propaganda organ whose very operation is illegal, has found a pressure point to control it. She enables its sale to owners who are friends of hers, and whose business depends on regulatory favors she has made a practice of doling out to allies. As the new editor in chief of Fox News, the owners installed Tim Miller, a skeptic of conservatism who has never previously worked in television news."

A former GOP speechwriter bashed President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president went on a late-night "hate tweeting" session.

Late Tuesday night, Trump fired off a series of posts on Truth Social about late-night television hosts who have criticized him. For instance, he asked his more than 11.2 million followers which of the large networks has the worst late-night show, and claimed the hosts had "no talent." He also appeared to threaten to revoke the broadcast licenses of networks that are "100% negative" against him.

Neo-Nazi activist and "Groyper" leader Nick Fuentes has a new target to defeat in the political arena — and it's a MAGA Republican.

According to Fox News, "White nationalist Nick Fuentes vowed to campaign against Vivek Ramaswamy in a slur-laced rant denouncing the Republican’s Ohio governor bid," during a stream. Specifically, Fuentes said, "I think I’m going to go to Ohio, and the word that we are looking for is denial. We have to deny Vivek Ramaswamy the governorship. This is the only race I care about in ‘26. It’s the only one I care about."

The Justice Department is now all but openly manipulating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files to insulate President Donald Trump from any potentially damaging information, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on her Substack on Wednesday.

This comes after White House officials started directly controlling the social media account for the DOJ, which shortly proclaimed a letter in which Epstein appeared to incriminate Trump was "fake" and called an influencer expressing skepticism a "dope."

An embattled former county clerk in Colorado who is serving a nine-year sentence for her efforts to help President Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election asked the Colorado Court of Appeals to recognize the president's pardon of her, according to a new report.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that lawyers for Tina Peters asked the appeals court to recognize Trump's pardon, citing George Washington's pardons of those who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795. Presidential pardons do not cover state crimes, although Peters' lawyers are asking the appeals court to make an exception.

The Department of Justice dropped an announcement on Christmas Eve that the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, which was supposed to have concluded by now under a law passed by Congress, will instead take weeks more.

"The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case," stated the official X account for the agency. "The DOJ has received these documents from SDNY and the FBI to review them for release, in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders. We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible."

President Donald Trump has boasted that Harvard University is on the brink of capitulating to a deal with the administration after months of government attacks and moves to pull funding from the storied institution. But according to The New York Times, recent email communications show the talks are going nowhere.

A huge sticking point, according to reporter Michael Schmidt, is that the administration wants to shake down Harvard for $200 million, which university officials consider to be out of the question.

President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report.

Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign. The administration has sought to withhold files from the public, and the Justice Department has said it "needs more time" to comply with a discharge petition that required it to release all of the files by December 19.

"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event.

"According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers," Programming Insider reported on Wednesday. "To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million."